Newly on Treatment
While testing might be a man’s first healthcare experience, the first 90 days on treatment are critical. Will the experience encourage him to continue to stay on treatment and go on to live a healthy life? Innovations at this stage focus on helping, guiding and supporting men—and improving the clinic experience.
A man engages with MenConnect by MINA For Men. For Health. This WhatsApp-based digital platform helps men in the crucial first 90 days of treatment—and beyond
Today, meeting clients "where they are" means digital. MenConnect leverages South Africa's most pervasive digital platform to engage men at scale and relieve clinician burden. Read More
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Implementing Partner: Youth Health Africa Description/Activities: Reorganization of filing systems to ensure ease and efficiency of finding and maintaining patient charts; developed a user-friendly process for organizing patient files What Makes the Intervention Unique/Different: It is a cost saving intervention that shares the cost between Youth Health Africa (YHA) and multiple DSPs; YHA covers monthly …
USAID DISCOVER-Health addressed some of the health system barriers the men face to make HIV services more accessible, and increased the availability of credible HIV/health information.
Male-only spaces/corners, specific male-only hours, male providers; male friendly clinics leverage existing infrastructure to provide a separate space, or in some cases dedicated times, to allow only men to access primary health care services
This initiative takes a comprehensive approach to providing clinical services in the community across the cascade - from testing to treatment.
These are male only clinics operated by male only staff that offer adaptable services in order to increase medical male circumcision, HIV testing, ART initiation and retention in care, TB screening and early diagnosis, and STI management in sexually active men. Philandoda Male Wellness clinic was set up at the main taxi rank in Eshowe, …
MSF introduced a comprehensive “welcome back” service at an ART facility, starting on the day of re-engagement. MSF is also using a social media campaign (WhatsApp and Facebook) to reach out to clients who may have disengaged from care.
This randomized control trial recruited ~1,000 people (43% men) to receive a CBHS intervention (monthly support groups and community delivery of ART) at 10 sites in Tanzania (across 4 regions). We compared outcome results to ~1,000 people receiving the standard of care at 10 matched sites in the same regions. The intervention was implemented for …